Short note Fish use of an inundated saltmarsh flat in a temperate Australian estuary
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Fish associated with Australian saltmarshes have previously been sampled fi-om within creeks or semi-permanent pools on the marsh; this is the first record of fish use of marsh flats inundated on high tides but emergent on low tides. Buoyant pop nets (9 m^ 1 mm mesh) were used to collect fish from two areas of the marsh flat on Torrens Island in the Barker Inlet-Port River estuary. South Australia. Fyke nets of the same mesh size were used to collect fish from small creeks draining the marsh fiat. Fish were caught in only four of 48 pop net releases, for a total of 19 fish of two species (families Gobiidae and Atherinidae). A total of 1109 fish from six species were caught in creeks draining the same areas, and the two species caught on the flats were the most common species in the creeks. Economically important species were poorly represented, with just four specimens of the mugilid Aldrichetta forsteri (Valenciennes).
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